The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-01-27
srArE AND NEIaHRoRHoop.
Salem has a case of highway robbel

The story Of a shortage In the G. H.V
" +. railway treasury Is denied.
". K. Taggart, a prominent attOTne7
OF LeatOnia, died from paralysis.
Youngstown is talking Of building a
work house, and Salem says me too.
Frank Graham, Lima II year old boy
crushed by falling tree on Thursday.
the Murphy temperance movement at
GFeanVille, Is attracting many converts.
Nine yea old boy at LOwelville has
fractured thigh, as result of cOsstlng
John Muller, of the Cincinnati police
force has been suspended for drunken
ness.
Round house employees on the G. Il. 81
D. road at Lima are out on strike.
More pay.
Daniel Reigle' old pioneer of Jackson
county died suddenly on Thursday of
heart disease.
Francis Murphy has again tackled
Cincinnati, or rather the pocket books
Of his admirers.
Prof. z 'dsker, the we'll known eccen-
trio character, Is In the asylum at New.
burg incOrably insane.
Squire VIM. Athey, prominent citi-
z9n OF London, fell upon the Icy pave.
ment and broke two ribs.
Ned G. Palmer, Youngstown young
man went to Sandusky, got on a spree
which wound up In his DEATH.
Laura jackson, st. Clairsyille 18.year-
Old girl, put her lllegitlmate baby in a
basket aud abandoned 1t on the street.
Youngstown has q man who is 80
much afraid of natural gas that he
won't lat the hired girl go down cellar
alone.
TWO Noble county salOOnists are serV
Ing out sentences In the Z4nesVllle
work house One gets 1913 days and the
other 10 days.
jim Ross, of WilliamapOrt, wanted ia
kill Sam Wilson and Ell. Watson, and
would have done 1t If his knife blade had
been 9 little longer.
The Committee Of One Hundred has
discovered that nearly 100000 Of taxes
levied in Hamilton county has not been
paid into the Treasury.
number of Cincinnati saloon keep
eT5 who paid the Scott tax before the
law Was declared unconstitutional, are
asking the Legislature to refund 1t.
Charles Morehead, night watchmau
on the SeiOtO Valley Railway at Circle
Vile, was found murdered, with bis
skull crushed in, yesterday morning.
Al funeral at Ironton the other day
the floor gaVe way and precipltated the
Ghe preacher, the corpse and the crowd
into the cellar, all In pile together.
81 Terrell, bad man, has been ar.
rested and returned to POmerOy as the
| susk ecs8d murderer of old AmRn Phelps
At his preliminary examination he con.
fessed his crime.
At Jefferson on Thursday evening
George Weathers, employed In the G.. "
Touring mills, was caught In the corn
cracker and Injured so badly his leg had
to be amputated.
The body of AL. Woods was found In a
field near Miamisburg on Friday morn
ing, where he had laid down and frozen
10 death, 1t Is supposed, January 1st,
when he WBs last seen.
Mrs. Anna Ruth started from FOstOria
some days ago to visit Indianapolis rela-
tiVes since when nothing has been heard
of her. Her husband and detectives are
trying to ascertain whether she's baen
IOully dealt with.
Hon. N. A. Daugherty, of Columbus,
who died last week, was an able lawyer,
and at tne time Of his death was and
had been for years President of the
Board Of Trustees Of the Imbecile Asy-
um at Columbus.
Somebody "Out west" two or three
Valley Reporter pair OF ears from a
Jack rabbit. A few days since some
other fellow sent him q tall of one, and
now brother Scott thinks If some one
would only send him the parts that have
been left out he could put the pieces to.
gether and have jack rabbit of his
own.
Jim Foley wanted a job of braklng on
the Little Miami Railroad so bad that
after the examining doctor had rejected
him he forged a certificate with the
physiciRn's name to 1t and presented II
to the company. He was arrested but
got away from the eff ser. Jim was
neV'r known to want work before, and
this seems a strange development Of bis
desire TO do 80.
NelsOnVille smart Alec the other day
induced little three.yar old girl to
put her tongue to ths frosted railing
of an iron fence, and then skipped out
IN high Rlee, leaving her held in her
painful position. A passer by found her
and succeeded in releasing her, but
leaving q piece Of her tongue adhering
to the fence. The sc0undrel who per-
petrated the dsstardly act deserves to
have his ears cut off.
On Friday morning as the Alliance
accommodation on the Cleveland &
Pttsburg Rsllr0al going north was
nearing EarlVille, the engineer saw q
haDdcBT with five section men coming
toward him. He reversed the engine,
but too late to avoid striking the car.
ALI the men jumped and escaped uuin-
jared with the exception Of John Brien.
He was struck by the car, breaking his
left leg In two places, fraUturing his
right leg and iDjuring him IN n'eTnally,
from the effects of which he died.
Captain Kauke, OF Wooster, the other
day received letter containing GER,
tificste calling for $50 in gold, also a
ten dollar bill with the following ex
planation: Il borrowed 800 from you
before the war and now am enabled TO
pay you with interest" There was no
signature, and tie postmsEk was so
obliterated that neither city nor State
could be deciphered, and Captain Ksuke
Is perfectly ignorant of the sender,
inasmuch as he had forgotten that such
loan had ever been made.
A Springfield hunter by the nameI of
Wolf went out Saturday night 10 catch
raocoons. aud on his return reported
that while going along he heard pecu-
liar noise. He urged his faithful hound
on and anrin pinO hatWaan tWn lnUa q